- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in heating, forging, and inspecting metal workpieces and products. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans and coordinates sequence of operations within forge shop.
* Inspects dies, machines, and work in process to detect malfunctions, and orders corrective action.
* Trains new workers in job duties.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May set up machines for experimental runs.
* May be designated according to department as hammer-shop supervisor; inspection supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates variety of machines to head, trim, drill, and tap metal stock to fabricate machine tools and form metal parts and fasteners, such as screws, bolts, and nuts, according to blueprint specifications and using precision measuring devices, machinist manuals, and handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads and interprets blueprints to determine specified tolerances and sequence of operations to be used in machining metal parts.
* Selects and installs cutting tools in machines, using handtools.
* Selects cutting speeds, depth of cut, and adjusts guides, using handtools.
* Installs workpiece in vise, marks layout, and verifies dimensions, using precision gauges and machinist manuals.
* Operates machines to tool specified parts and inspects parts to ensure conformity to blueprint specifications, using gauges and applying knowledge of fractions and decimals.
* Sharpens cutting tools and drill bits, using bench grinders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up forging machines, such as forging presses, coining presses, drophammers, forging rolls, and upsetters, following blueprint, work order, and data-chart specifications, and using handtools and measuring instruments, such as rules, squares, and gauges. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns and bolts specified dies to ram and anvil of presses and hammers.
* Installs impression and gripping dies and synchronizing cams on upsetting machines.
* Sets and bolts roll dies into self-positioning slots or dogs on roll shafts of forging rolls.
* Aligns and bolts positioning fixtures and stops, and turns handles or knobs to synchronize conveyor speed with forging-machining action and heating cycle of furnace.
* Starts machine and inspects work to verify conformance of die setup to specifications.
* May be designated according to machine set up as drop hammer setter-up; forging press setter-up; upsetter setter-up.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shapes heated metal stock into forgings on power hammer or press equipped with open dies, applying knowledge of forging techniques and physical properties of metal, following work order, diagrams, or specifications, and using measuring instruments and handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns and bolts dies into ram and anvil of machine, using rule, square, gauges, and handtools.
* Observes color of metal in furnace to determine forging temperature and signals heater to pull metal from furnace.
* Directs lever tender to start machine and regulate action of hammer or press, and directs heavy-forger helper or manipulator operator to position and turn metal on anvil of machine.
* Verifies dimensions of forging, using rule and calipers.
* May forge cold metal.
* May be designated according to forging equipment as hammersmith; press smith.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects dimensions of cannon barrels before and after cold-working, following specifications and using measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures outside and inside diameter of barrel at specified points before and after cold working, using micrometer and star gauge.
* Examines gun bore for cracks and flaws, using optical device to see down gun barrel.
* Records inspection data and recommendations for disposition of barrel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine that automatically performs multioperations, such as roll-threading, heading (upsetting), slotting, slitting, or shearing to form chain or produce fasteners, such as bolts and rivets, from hot or cold metal rod or wire. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects, installs, and aligns dies, rolls, cutting tools, guides, and stops to set up machine, using handtools and measuring instruments.
* Sets controls to synchronize machine actions for various operations on workpiece in specified sequence.
* Positions coil of metal wire or rod on feed spindle and threads it through straightening rolls into feed mechanism; or inserts end of heated rod into feed mechanism.
* Starts machine to produce sample product and measures for conformance with specifications, using measuring instruments.
* Adjusts settings of dies on controls, as required, to obtain product meeting specifications and quality standards.
* Starts machine to begin production and observes machine operations for evidence of malfunction and products for defects.
* May be designated according to type of product produced, as bolt-machine operator; chain-forming-machine operator; rivet maker.
* May be known according to whether metal is heated or cold forged, as cold-header operator; hot-header operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates one or more automatic machines to shear, form, and punch nut blanks from hot or cold metal bar or coiled stock. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs punching and shearing dies in machine, using wrenches, rule, hammer, and gauges.
* Threads end of coiled stock from feeder reel through straightening rolls and against stop in machine, or aligns bar stock between dies by hand or using tongs for hot bar stock.
* Starts machine and observes feeding operation, or feeds bar stock against dies.
* Measures nut blanks with gauges and adjusts dies to maintain specified dimensions.
* May regulate electric induction or gas furnace to heat stock.
* May set up machine for production-machine tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to forge boat and track spikes from heated steel rods. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts forging hammer, squeezing dies, and stop guides, according to specifications, using rule and handtools.
* Adjusts temperature controls of furnace in which rods are heated depending on color of heated rod.
* Moves lever or depresses pedal to discharge malformed spikes and waste end of rod into receptacle.
* Grasps spike with tongs, observes shape of head, and measures spike with gauge to ensure that it conforms to specifications.
* Directs spike-machine feeder when setting up equipment.
* May replace and repair worn and broken parts of machine and conveyor system.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds heated steel rods into machine that forges spikes. Respnsibilities include:
* Signals spike-machine heater to shove end of heated rod through open end of furnace.
* Grasps rod with tongs and shoves it onto feed rollers of machine.
* Observes color of rods and notifies spike-machine operator if furnace temperature requires adjustment.
* Assists in installing dies and adjusting guide stops, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates battery of machines to press lead slugs into buckshot for shotgun ammunition. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes and replaces dies, punches, and die blocks, and adjusts knockout pins, feed fingers, and stops, using handtools.
* Fills hoppers with lead slugs from scoop or tote box.
* Starts machines and measures diameters of swaged shot samples, using shot gauge, and weighs them on balance scale to determine conformance to specifications.
* Rolls shot under dial micrometer to verify roundness.
* Turns bolts, setscrews, and stop nuts to adjust position of punches and dies by trial and error to produce acceptable shot.
Industry:Professional careers
